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WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller

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Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller

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I love WLED and have used it on over a dozen lighting projects with ESP32s and ESP8266s. It makes it so ridiculously easy, and has an incredible set of features with a great app to control it all and integrate with other services. - Kids bedside lamps. Using the timed preset changes in WLED it goes from bright white/blue for reading time, then at bedtime it plays a rainbow animation and fades to a bright orange with…

Can you link to what bedside lamp you're using? I'm happy to modify/retrofit an existing lamp but have yet to find something that would work well with LED strips.

If it doesn't have to be too bright you can use many lamps by wrapping a LED strip around a tube and placing that roughly where a bulb would go. Lanterns can also look cool that way if they have frosted sides.

Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller

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Huge fan of WLED here. - I wanted a semi-permanent lighting fixture for Christmas, but something that would work for other holidays as well. I took a bunch of bullet-style leds and inserted them into holes I drilled on a piece of material that matched the gutters. Mounted them just underneath the gutter, you don't even see them unless you're looking for them. "Hanging" my xmas lights outdoors means I hit one IOT butt…

Could you clarify what bullet-style LEDs are and how do they look?

I think probably something like these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AG923GI?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...

I know a lot of people use them punched through maps, for live METARS displays

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